Intersecting frontiers for ground and space-based solar missions: symbiotic coordination between DKIST, PSP, and Solar Orbiter

TL;DR

This paper discusses the coordinated use of DKIST, PSP, and Solar Orbiter to enhance solar and heliospheric science through multi-vantage observations, leveraging their unique capabilities for comprehensive solar diagnostics.

Contribution

It introduces recent efforts to optimize multi-facility coordinated observations, highlighting initial data analyses and the potential for new scientific insights.

Findings

Initial data from coordinated observations are presented.

Enhanced diagnostic capabilities at multiple solar layers are demonstrated.

Potential for new discoveries through multi-vantage solar observations.

Abstract

Three uniquely powerful solar and heliospheric facilities are now operational at the same time. The US National Science Foundation's Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope, NASA's Parker Solar Probe, and ESA's Solar Orbiter each represent frontiers in space science, and each pursue richly tailored science missions. At the intersection of these missions, though, lie unparalleled opportunities for multi-vantage point science. This symbiotic relationship is especially pronounced during PSP's perihelia and Solar Orbiter remote science windows. As the most advanced solar polarimeter ever built, DKIST strengthens many of the multi-facility use cases by opening new diagnostic windows into solar magnetism -- spanning the photosphere, chromosphere, and corona -- at unprecedented spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution. In this article, we report recent efforts to maximize the scientific potential of coordinated DKIST, PSP, and Solar Orbiter observations. Existing DKIST data from coordinated observations with Solar Orbiter and PSP are highlighted alongside some first investigations of these data.